You got it! Somehow, my mind wouldn't go there. On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:56 AM Kipp McMichael via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > exasturbated: the feeling, during times of pandemic and social distancing, > that you've done everything you can to entertain to yourself and yet you > are still bored. > > Thank goodness for backyard gardens! > -|Kipp > ________________________________ > From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> on behalf of Robert > Lauf via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:22 AM > To: Tim Eck via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Cc: Robert Lauf <boblauf@att.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Additions to the lexicon > > Now it we could only get TV news readers to stop adding -ing to the end of > every verb! What morons. It's no wonder kids today are illiterate. > Bob > On Friday, September 18, 2020, 11:14:10 AM EDT, Tim Eck via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Jane said: > "The second new word I learned today is something that we on the Pacific > coast are all yearning for at this moment: "petrichor," the fragrance of > sun-baked earth when it is first struck by rain." > > I had been familiar with "petrichor" already, though back east we mostly > don't get much sunbaked earth and have to rely on sunbaked boulders since > they bake a lot quicker. > A word that I recently enjoyed learning was "mondegreen", named for Lady > Mondegreen, much regaled in Scottish ballads. > But as uplifting as it is to learn a new word, I find it increasingly > frustrating to hear perfectly good old words being confounded and macerated > on the airwaves. I am begrudgingly accepting that "death spiral" isn't > just for airplanes anymore, as "spiralling out of control" becomes a > mandatory phrase in every broadcast and that "epicenters" aren't just for > earthquakes anymore. (By the way, isn't the west coast about due? Maybe a > "fire sharknado"?) > But lately as so many situations are being "exacerbated", I keep hearing > PBS commentators confounding it with "exasperated" and have begun shouting > at my radio on a regular basis. As a child I revered Walter Cronkite and > other well educated and well spoken commentators and personalities like > Dorothy Parker and Bennett Cerf. But just the other day I heard someone on > public radio say "exasturbated" for "exacerbated". Every time I start to > visualize that as a portmanteau, I lose my train of thought. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…